Bent box



l UNiTE STATES PATENT OEEicE.

WILLIAM NVITTE, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

' BENT BOX.v

` SBECIFICATIO forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,444, dated December 5, 1882.`

` Appncantm fumi october n, ieee'. (No maei.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM WITTE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bent Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of paper boxes known as knockdown7 boxes; and it consists in certain features of construction, hereinafter described, and specilicall y set forth in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a plan of the blank, which, when properly folded,

forms a box embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents the first step in folding the blank, the outside thereofbeing shown with surfaceshading. Fig. 3 represents the box complete and in a nearly iiat or knock-down condition; and Fig. 4, a perspective of the box with one end closed.

Like letters indicate like parts in all the iigures.

l take a piece of card-board, pasteboard, or other suitable material and cut it to the shape shown in Fig. 1, and score it in longitudinal and transverse lines, as indicated by dotted lines in said figure, thus producing the sections A, B, C, D, "E, and F, having respect ively the end covering-flaps a c d c, andthe tuckingflap's d', the sections B and F being without such flaps, as shown.

The edges b ot' section B may be straight, if desired; but I prefer to curve them slightly inward, as shown, for a purpose hereinafter specified.

By referring to Fig. 2, it will be seen that when section A is folded upon section B there are four contiguous body forming sections, which have end covering-naps, ctc d c, the sections being rst adouble-ily section, formed of the two indicatedby A and B, and the remaining sections being C, D, and E, while the section Fis utilized asthe seain or joining section of the body, which, for the purpose of giving a smooth finished exterior, is secured byr paste or otherwise, it' desired, tothe inner surface of the double-Hy section.

Thus far a box is produced which is adapted to lie fiat, and having one of its sides of double thickness of material, which are at their contiguous surfaces unattached to eachother,

of its ends may be closed by fold-in g inwardly at rightangles to the sides, the end flaps, a c e or at c c, in the order named, and finally the flap d. .Th tucking-flap d may now be inserted between the iiies A B, to serve as a means of retaining the end aps in a closed condition. Cutting the edges of section B on curved lines, or on any lines which expose a portion of the contiguous surface of the section A below the scored or hinged line of the flap a, facilitates the insertion of the tuckingiiap d; but by slightly compressing the double-fly side the iiies may be separated, so that when the edges b are straight the insertion of the clicking-nap is in no wise a difficult opera tion.

The order of folding the end flaps may be changed without restriction, except that the flap d shall be the last to be folded down.

It is apparent that the sections A B and the section F may be arranged at either end ofthe blank, so long as they are opposite ends thereof, and that the principle involved in my construction--the comprising of two ies of material in one wall or sidewill permit of a variation in the location of that section. As, for example, it may constitute one of the narrower sides of the box, in which case the opposite narrower side covering-flap would be provided with a tucking-flap, the equivalent of d.

Having now described myinvention and its operation, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The blank herein shown and described, consisting of the sections A, B, C, D, E, and F, the end flaps, ct c d c, and the tucking-flaps d', the aps c c being separated by a flapless tiguous to each other in the order named.

2. A box-blank having six sections arranged in one row, as follows: an end section, A,pro vided with iiaps, a single iiapless section adjoining said section A, three adjoining sections, C D E, provided with flaps, and the jioining or lap section F, all to constitute afbox, substantially as described.

3. The box herein shown and described, conso that when raised from a flat condition each l 9 section, and the remaining end flaps being conroo 2 wenn.

sisting,` of six contiguous sections arranged in side, and access to the contents of the box can one row and havingthe sides G D E united be obtained from either end Without tearing to the side folds of a, lined or double side, A the ilaps.

B, by a seam or lap-section, F, and provided WILLAM WITTE. with the covering-deps a c d c and tucking- Witnesses: iaLps d', whereby both 'clicking-flaps are equally GEORGE S. THOMAS,

secured between the sections of the double WM. A. WRIGHT. 

